The Economics of Race in the United States

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Brendan OaFlaherty brings the tools of economic analysisaincentives, equilibrium, optimizationato bear on racial issues. From health care, housing, and education, to employment, wealth, and crime, he shows how racial differences powerfully determine American lives, and how progress in one area is often constrained by diminishing returns in another.Mortgages to buy houses rose 30 percent a year in low creditscore
neighborhoods from 2002 to 2005 but only 11 percent ... was falling in low
creditscore neighborhoods and rising in high creditscore neighborhoods (Mian
and Sufi 2014, 79). The Housing Bubble Largely as a result of the credit boom,
house prices rose sharply at the beginning of the twentyfirst century, especially in
the low creditscore zipanbsp;...

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The Economics of Race in the United States

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Brendan O'Flaherty

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Harvard University Press - 2015-06-08

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